The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions. Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole…

May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.  (A Franciscan Benediction)

God has told you what is good; And what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?  (Micah…

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Do not let people pull you into their storm.  Pull them into your peace.  (Unknown)

There are people in every time and every land that want to stop history in its tracks.  They fear the future, mistrust the present and invoke the security of the…

Think of the impact one positive thought can have.  Now multiply that by a million and watch the world around us change.  (Hillary Weeks)  

When you and I fail to raise our voices as we should, the Earth loses an opportunity to become an even better place to live than it could be.  (Joan…

We are stones skipped across the waters of the universe. The ripples of our presence, whatever it is,  good or bad, radiate forever.  (Joan Chittister, OSB)  

Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each…